Published: May 9th, 2012 at 4:34 am ET
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After The Media Has Gone: Fukushima, Suicide and the Legacy of 3.11
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 10, Issue 19, No. 2
By Makiko Segawa
May 7, 2012
A Crime Wave in the Wake of Disaster
Behind the doors, in Iwaki city, there is another story that rarely appears openly in the media. Violent crimes conducted by nuclear workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Iwaki city is the staging area for workers from the plant. Every three months, hundreds of new faces have been coming to the city in rotation; the average period that a worker can work on site is about three months due to the cap on radiation exposure.
Local people near Iwaki’s downtown area complain that the atmosphere and security in their district has changed dramatically for the worse because of these workers. On January 12th, when I tried to tour the entertainment areas of the city’s downtown at around 9 p.m., three female high school students stopped me. “Never go there alone,” they warned. There have been so many rapes in the Tamachi district because stressed-out nuclear workers have been attacking girls!” [...]
That story is likely the tip of the iceberg. In Iwaki’s entertainment district, there are many similar stories and rumors of rape by nuclear workers whose victims include young hostesses and even the elderly manager of a bar. [...]
According to the testimony of residents in the downtown area, nuclear workers have become quieter since last August partly because their companies have slapped a curfew at their hotels after 21:00 and also because temporary houses were built last August to accommodate them. [...]
On the one hand, such charges may express the inclination of local people to blame crime on outsiders. On the other hand, we know from places like Okinawa that a concentration of men constrained to tough discipline and stressful working conditions might provoke such crimes. And Fukushima Daiichi has indeed become another war front.
Makiko SEGAWA is a freelance journalist based in Japan, as well as a translator and guide to overseas media. Her clients include France 24, The Wall Street Journal and other European television production companies such as RAI TV, the U.K Performgroup, AB International and Seven Saint Production. She can be contacted at makikosegawa@gmail.com
Published: May 9th, 2012 at 4:34 am ET
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The history of warfare is rampant with cases of rape from men during and after combat in populated areas. Psychologists postulate it is primal, men needing to pass on their seed prior to death. IMHO, at least in combat you have a chance to survive.
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I tend to agree in part Cossack55. Comfort women as a strategy to keep the soldiers happy was anticipated by great criminal military psychopathic minds of our oft repeated past/present..
More recently it has seen beauty competitions to nominate the most beautiful girl who only consumed food from prefectures around Fukushima or something to that effect.
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Isn't part of the story that so much radiation exposure on animals and humans creates violent behavior?. Fluoride is put into the drinking water to pacify the population and also all the GWEN towers together with the cell phone towers can broadcast a frequency to pacify people and maybe the chemtrails and next the unmanned drones with be dropping antidepressants. But the real culprit and cause of violent, irrational behavior are all the nuclear power plants and weapons facilities. They need to be shut down immediately. All the efforts to remediate the effects of radiation along with the facilities producing radiation are destroying both the economy and all life.
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I cannot blame or give radiation as an excuse for this type of behavior.
Radiation has effects on all things even humans. However, people know what is right and what is wrong, and this is so wrong.
What should be asked is, who have they gotten to clean up with this mess.
Radiation made me do it…Doesn't cut it with me.
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Hi WSP, I agree. First thing crossing my mind reading the headline was "Yakuza" – I don't think they found necessarily the most reliable sort of people for those jobs at Fuku, but probably some of the "suspect" type (don't know how to express this properly, hope you catch my drift).
It would be a shame if that minority would ruin the reputation of all those workers who are doing the most important job and will pay dearly for it in the future.
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Which leads one to speculate that the "workers" might be on "prison release", shortening their sentances and shortening their lives. Would not be surprising. In fact, the only thing I find surprising is the lack of coverage (or interest) worldwide.
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I agree BreadAndButter @ It would be a shame if that minority would ruin the reputation of all those workers who are doing the most important job and will pay dearly for it in the future.
Lack of coverage is surprising to me also cossack55.
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I didn't mean that radiation should be used as an excuse. I meant that unless we can stop radiation proliferation, violent behaviors will become more prevalent.
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Exactly. Who is ignorant/desperate enough to want to work at Fukushima Daiichi at this point?
OTOH, when large swaths of the world's population realizes what's going on, this will only get worse.
You know how some people equate all this to 'The Road'? This is how it starts. And it isn't going to have a happy ending.
Buckle up.
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This is one of the most disgusting characteristics of male humans.
The workers are, in my view, responsible for their own premeditated actions while in a conscious state. If you are selfish enough to rape someone for a mere moment of satisfaction, then your ability to inflict such trauma should be removed.
Castration by dull butter-knife.
Of course tepco/Japan government and yakuza/subcontractors are MUCH more to blame, they treat humans like a snot filled tissue. They are the cause of this snapping of psychological sanity, surely a torture, that has resulted in these atrocities. The 'Heads' of these organizations deserve much harsher corrective measures, if they are ever going to change their behavior.
Perhaps, consenting prostitutes, well paid by tepco, would not be too much to ask for these doomed workers? I have no solution. I just know if you abuse any living thing then you create a dysfunctional/sick person that can be dangerous to the freedom of others.
So much suffering already, we don't need women playing the role of human punching bags for stress relief.
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+ A ZILLION
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I would endorse TEPCO and NRC officers to be used as stress relief.
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Thanks for laugh cossack55
However, I don't think they would agree to that. lol..
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Rape isn't about sex. It is about violence. When you condemn and force people into a certain death from radiation exposure, you are going to find violent behavior. This is the fault of the nuclear industry. Please shut down all nuclear facilities.
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“Consenting prostitutes”? Women prostitute themselves out of a lack of other options, poverty, drug addiction, mental illness, previous abuse and desperation. The romantic myth that prostitution is a choice that women make while in a state of a relatively healthy mindset needs to end.
I have spent time interviewing rape victims and listening to the stories the other interviewers heard over the time of a college study. Overall I have heard the tragic stories of probably 200 rape victims. I will just say that while everyone focuses on the physical trauma the psychological trauma is much worse in my opinion.
The way to deal with rape in any society is through very tough prison terms. Rapists cannot be given a pass because they themselves are under some extreme form of stress, desperation, poverty, drug addiction etc…
The rape victims need counseling and kindness; ironically the nuclear workers need the same.
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everyone knows cells with high mitosis rates are the most sensitive to isotopic damage. or "rads to nads makes em mads" or something along those lies.
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IMPORTANT NEWS FOR OUR WELL-BEING: Mike Adams will be interviewing Arnie et al regarding impending / increasing Fukushima radiation dangers to No. Hemisphere when he hosts the Alex Jones show this Friday. Details at http://www.naturalnews.com .
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Kurion Company claims to have removed 8.5 million Curies of radiation from Fukushima water containment areas in first year of operation at Fukushima. CEO says entire USA yearly decontamination for 104 commercial nuclear power generating plants is 500,000 Curies.
If Kurion's number is accurate, with the size of the Fukushima radioactive water containment pools, the amount of radiation is incredible. No government report confirms these levels, that I know of.
"We had removed 8.4 million curies in the first year" at Fukushima, said Raymont. Putting that into perspective, the entire U.S. nuclear fleet disposes of 500,000 curies in total, according to the CEO.
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Kurion-Continues-Fukushima-Cleanup-Moves-to-Test-Vitrification-of-Nuclear-/
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